Author Topic: Exploding toads - another sign (Read 4997 times)

Loki · « **on:** May 01, 2005, 02:04:32 PM »

(AP) More than 1,000 toads have puffed up and exploded in a Hamburg pond in recent weeks, and German scientists still have no explanation for what's causing the combustion, an official said Wednesday.

Both the pond's water and body parts of the toads have been tested, but scientists have been unable to find a bacteria or virus that would cause the toads to swell up and pop, said Janne Kloepper, of the Hamburg-based Institute for Hygiene and the Environment.

"It's absolutely strange," she said. "We have a really unique story here in Hamburg. This phenomenon really doesn't seem to have appeared anywhere before."

The toads at a pond in the upscale neighborhood of Altona have been blowing up since the beginning of the month, filling up like balloons until their stomachs suddenly burst.

"It looks like a scene from a science-fiction movie," Werner Schmolnik, the head of a local environment group, told the Hamburger Abendblatt daily. "The bloated animals suffer for several minutes before they finally die."

Biologists have come up with several theories, but Kloepper said that most have been ruled out.

The pond's water quality is no better or worse than other bodies of water in Hamburg, the toads did not appear to have a disease, and a laboratory in Berlin has ruled out the possibility that it is a fungus that made its way from South America, she said.

She said that tests will continue. In the meantime, city residents have been warned to stay away from the pond.

Shadowling · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2005, 02:05:24 PM »

Yes, I saw that in the paper.

« **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2005, 01:52:49 PM »

i want one!!!

« **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2005, 03:13:06 PM »

when was this??

Shadowling · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2005, 03:28:36 PM »

Mabeye a three weeks or so ago... I saw it in the paper.

It's probably just a few Shadows getting together. This stuff always happens.... You should have felt the Shadow Populations guilt when it haoppened.... They try to keep a low profle, but they never can...*shakes head*.

« **Reply #5 on:** May 12, 2005, 04:01:09 PM »

o reall-

just one second *loads rifle*

weird guy: hiiiii!!!!

me: YOU AGAIN, GIMME THE DAM LUCKY CHARMS

weird guy that turns out to be lucky the leprachon: !!!! O CRAP ITS YOU

Me: bwahahha

~forgive

« **Reply #6 on:** May 12, 2005, 08:33:56 PM »

No dont shoot lucky!

ModernDayVampire · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2005, 07:14:31 AM »

no if u kill him there will be no more lucky charms noooooooo**dives and takes bullet for luckey**

uhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (dying Moans)

« **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2005, 12:23:06 PM »

there will be no more hearts stars and horse shoes clovers and ballons pots of gold, rainbows, and the red ballon!!!! sad i know this right?

ModernDayVampire · « **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2005, 01:23:03 PM »

no there will be i took the bulet for him now im dying

« **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2005, 01:58:22 PM »

im sry..

« **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2005, 02:53:39 PM »

<_< >_> *slowly walks away*

*sneaks up behind lucky with wire!!!*

~to be continued

ModernDayVampire · « **Reply #12 on:** May 23, 2005, 05:11:40 AM »

No Lucky Look Out (wow bad last words)

« **Reply #13 on:** May 23, 2005, 01:16:49 PM »

ok???

ModernDayVampire · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2005, 10:29:38 AM »

haha last post